NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 19 



Windermere, Westmorland, September 18th, 1921.— G. Lissant Cox ; 

 Preston. 



Third Brood of Pararge megjera and Colias edusa in 

 Hants. — With reference to the Eev. Gilbert H. Raynor's remarks 

 (' Entom., vol. liv, p. 269) on the third brood of this species, I should 

 like to place on record its occurrence as late as the last week of 

 October and first of November on low cliffs facing the sea, between 

 Milford-on-Sea and the Hurst Castle marshes, South Hants, in prime 

 condition, of normal size, very active and elusive on the wing, and 

 hardly resting for a moment. At the same time and place Colias 

 edusa was likewise to be seen, with, however, somewhat changed 

 methods of flight, fluttering, uncertainly and weakly, round bramble 

 and other bushes, and could have been captured without any exertion 

 or trouble. The specimens were equally fine. At Milford the 

 weather conditions of this very remarkable autumn were abnormally 

 mild and summerlike till November 7th, when, after a sudden 

 furious storm of wind and rain, cold weather suddenly set in, with 

 deep snow in some places and keen frost throughout England. — 

 I. Cosmo Melvill ; Meole Brace Hall, Shrewsbury. 



Second Broods of Nisoniades tages and Cupido minimus. — 

 Numerous examples of Nisoniades (Thanaos) tages were observed on 

 the Downs here during the last few days of July. So far as my own 

 observations were concerned I could not see that these specimens 

 were in any way different from the normal, spring ones. Cupido 

 (Zizera) minimus occurred at the same time and place in abundance, 

 although the early June emergence was quite scarce. — A. T. Postans; 

 148, Eawcett Road, Portsmouth. 



Lakv^j of Sphinx convolvuli in Hants. — On October 25th, whilst 

 pulling mangolds in a field nearby, the worker found two larvae which 

 he brought to me, and which proved to be S. convolvuli. The field 

 was searched over on subsequent days but Convolvulus arvensis was 

 very scarce. On November 4th one other larva was found. Further 

 search was not successful, and doubtless the cold weather and snow 

 of the nights of the 7th and 8th destroyed both any other larvae there 

 may have been and what little remained of the withering food-plant. 

 Each of the three larvae is of a dark muddy sepia brown ground- 

 colour, inconspicuously and minutely mottled with yellow dots. The 

 face mask is blackish with three yellow stripes on either side with a 

 shorter sub-triangular central stripe. There is a more or less 

 conspicuous yellow sub-dorsal stripe on each side extending from the 

 head to the fifth segment. From that point its position is indicated 

 by a yellowish spot on the anterior portion of each segment from the 

 sixth to the eleventh. These spots are not _ connected by any 

 intermediate stripe. Below the spiracles, which are blackish in 

 colour, there is an interrupted continuous bold whitish subspiracular 

 line throughout the whole length. This line extends round the anal flap, 

 at which point it is more yellow in colour. There are distinct oblique 

 blackish side stripes on segments 5 to 11 and indications of a dorsal 

 stripe on segments 2 and 3. The horn is black and shiny. The 

 ventral area, legs and prolegs are dark, slightly shagreencd with 

 yellowish. When at rest the larva lies half curled with head parallel 



